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                                        #234-z
                                JOHN RUST EATON PAPERS
                                       Inventory

EATON, JOHN RUST, 1772-1830                            No. 234-z
  PAPERS, 1794-1815, 1910

Description             Planter of Granville County, N.C.,
representative of Granville County in the North Carolina House of
Commons, 1801, 1802, and 1812, and horse breeder.
                        Two letters from John Rust Eaton to his
father, Charles Rust Eaton (1743-1822), and seventeen letters to
John Rust Eaton--one from William H. Winder (b. 1775), two from
Nathaniel Macon (1757-1837), eight from James Winchester (1752-
1826), one from William Richardson Davie (1756-1820), three from
James Somervell, one from Robert Marion (1766-1811), and one from
Benjamin Williams (1754-1814).  Subjects discussed include
national politics and relations with England, horse breeding,
tobacco and cotton farming in Tennessee, land Eaton owned in
Tennessee and prices of other land there, and prices of farm
products in Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.  Most of
these letters were published in James Sprunt Historical
Publications, vol. 9, no. 1 (1910), pp. 27-59, with an
introduction and notes by J. D. deRoulhac Hamilton, and a copy of
this publication is included with the papers.

On-line             Agricultural prices--Southern states--
Catalog                    History--19th century.
Terms               Cotton growing--Tennessee--History--19th
                           century.
                    Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820.
                    Eaton, John Rust, 1772-1830.
                    Horse breeders--Tennessee--History--19th
                           century.
                    Macon, Nathaniel, 1757-1837.
                    Marion, Robert, 1766-1811.
                    Plantation owners--North Carolina.
                    Real property--Tennessee--19th century.
                    Somervell, James.
                    Tobacco--Tennessee--History--19th century.
                    United States--Foreign relations--1783-1815.
                    United States--Politics and
                         government--Constitutional period, 1789-
                         1809.
                    Williams, Benjamin, 1751-1814.
                    Winchester, James, 1752-1826.
                    Winder, William H., b. 1775.

Size                20 items

Provenance          Formerly part of the collection of the North
Carolina Historical Society; became part of the Southern
Historical Collection at its founding in 1927.

Access              No restrictions.

Processing Note     This collection was rehoused under the
sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

Copyright           Retained by the authors of items in these
papers, or  their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.